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Eugène Pelletan

Eugène Pelletan

Nadar · 1855–59

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Palette

Iron
32% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.6:1

Taupe
22% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

Warm grey
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Mushroom
15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1

Oyster
11% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.3:1

Putty
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Nadar
French, Paris 1820–1910 Paris
Date: 1855–59
Type: Photograph
Medium: Salted paper print from glass negative
Size: 23.5 x 17.6 cm (9 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Grey · lightness 47, colourfulness 8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift and Rogers Fund, 1991. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules